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The computer hacking group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for crashing
the Home Office website overnight and threatened to make similar attacks
every weekend for weeks to come.

Anonymous Twitter messages warned of the attack four days ago, and said:
“EXPECT a DDOS (distributed denial of service) every Saturday on the UK
Government sites.”

The government website became inaccessible last night after the hackers
crashed it by flooding it with messages. The group claimed it was acting in
protest over various government plans to damage human rights.

The department’s homepage homeoffice.gov.uk
was displaying a message saying the page was currently unavailable